Was total crap.
People call it "The Best Movie! Ever!" But all I can say is "I want those 2-point-5 five hours of my life back!"
Jason and I found it in a collection of classic sci-fi movies the other day (which included Soylent Green, The Time Machine & Forbidden Planet), figured "everyone raves about it, and neither of us have ever seen it, so we might as well." And we did. And we watched it today. And now we're both mad.
There's no plot, or if there is, it's so plodding we couldn't tell what it was. Scenes that only needed about 30 seconds or so to make their point were dragged on for five minutes or more. The first almost 20 minutes is men in bad ape suits jumping around, screeching, and "discovering" the first weapon. Not one single line of real dialog is spoken until almost 30 minutes in, and it's probably the best line of dialog - and incidentally, the best acting - in the whole movie.
Of course, Stanley Kubrick directed and he was crazy. I don't know why I expected something decent from him.
According to IMDB trivia about 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (author of the book of the same name, and the screenplay) reportedly said "If you understand '2001' completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."
The only question this movie raised for me - and it's still unanswered - is "What the hell?!"
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I've never seen it, but isn't it from way back? Old movies always seem to drag out scenes. It drives me nuts too! Guess I'll take this one off my bucket list:).
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